oh I get it you would not be happy with the money going AWOL bit all DoF do it

I asked if you were serious, and you answered it in your next comment.

No, I wouldn't be happy with Sam Allardyce moving to a DoF role. Nothing to do with alleged corruption. Just purely based on competence. We need to get back to aspiring as a club, and not being happy to roll around in our own proverbial shit, as some of the old timers on here seem to enjoy.

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Think mathematically we currently have an extremely low chance of going down, like 0.02 or something I saw the other day. But our peak is probably now 9th, 8th at a push and if we hadn’t had the couple of results we did pick up when sam joined then we’d be panicking now for sure.

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I just think Moshiri has had his first major action at the club and gone ''I'll get Koeman in because he's a big name and who as DoF? How about that fella who's just masterminded Leicester to the title? Yeah he'll do''

Feel like that's literally how we ended up with them two, with no one taking a moments thought to whether it would actually work.

That probably is what happened with Walsh.

Although we had Monchi lined up until Sevilla emotionally blackmailed him into staying another year.

Koeman’s name was important (as in attracting players, well supposedly) but finishing 7th and 6th with Southampton was a good job.

Think you can get away with one appointment being made with more intangible elements in mind (eg Koeman’s rep) but the other, whether famous or not, has to be someone genuinely good at their job.

Walsh, having never been a DoF before, was always going to be a risk.

But for balance, aside from transfers, you’d assume that a lot of a DoF’s work will not bear fruit / be noticed for a couple of years.

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Think mathematically we currently have an extremely low chance of going down, like 0.02 or something I saw the other day. But our peak is probably now 9th, 8th at a push and if we hadnt had the couple of results we did pick up when sam joined then wed be panicking now for sure.

form 7th team to 11th have all won just 1 game in last 6 I thinkwe have not been picking up the points of late but not losing any hope of 7th at the same time we have added well with the 2 coming in just get that LB slot sorted now and 7th should be in the bag

the summer has to see the end of this old guard at the back its just has to or we will be treading water again